³³ For details, see Cheney, ‘Triamond’, in The Spenser Encyclopedia: ’the names of Priamond, Diamond, and Triamond suggest the first, second, and third worlds that Neoplatonists such as Ficino and Pico found in Plato’s Timaeus (30B): terrestrial, celestial, and supercelestial. … The story of Agape and her sons also suggests the scholastic doctrine of the soul, in which during the generation of the individual the two lesser souls, the vegetative and the sensitive, are drawn into the higher soul, the rational, so that man has one perfect soul combining the three. … Scholastic doctrine further suggests that the three powers of the soul correspond to three kinds of love, named by Aquinas as natural, sensitive, and rational’ (698–9). Cheney neglects the literary dimension of the allegory.